Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_Concerning_Human_Understanding

Release date is 2004-01-01

Steve Harris and David Widger
Updated: 2022-11-13.

"An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1" by John Locke is a philosophical work first published in 1689. It challenges the notion that humans are born with innate ideas, arguing instead that the mind begins as a blank slate shaped entirely by experience. Locke examines how we acquire knowledge through sensation and reflection, distinguishes between primary and secondary qualities of objects, and explores personal identity, language, and the nature of understanding itself—laying crucial groundwork for modern empiricism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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